Venture capitalists opened up the spigot in China in the fourth quarter of 2014, blowing away the previous record for yearly total investment.

Investors poured $15.5 billion into deals during the year, more than twice the previous record of $7.3 billion set in 2011 and the highest amount since VentureSource began collecting data on China in 2006. Dow Jones VentureSource is a database from Dow Jones & Co., which is owned by News Corp. Read More »

Online-storage company Box Inc.’s ambition to go public is finally coming to fruition. Box’s initial public offering–slated for late afternoon on Thursday–comes roughly ten months after it publicly filed for an IPO. Read More »

The market for shares held by founders, early investors and employees of privately held technology companies is on the upswing, says one investor, thanks to greater demand by institutional investors aiming to grab stakes in the most promising private companies.

“There is no question the size of the market is up this year,” said Chris Albinson, co-founder of Founders Circle Capital, a recently established buyer of such stock. Read More »

Online home-goods retailer Wayfair Inc. is set to price its initial public offering late Wednesday, the first test for an ecommerce business following Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s massive IPO last month. Read More »

The venture capital industry kept rolling out IPOs in the third quarter, mainly in the health-care sector.

With 23 initial public offerings by venture-backed companies, it was the sixth consecutive quarter with more than 20 IPOs, according to data released today by the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.

The total of 88 venture-backed IPOs in the first nine months of this year exceeds the 81 IPOs during all of 2013, which was a strong year for the venture industry. Read More »

Kabbage Chief Executive Rob Frohwein told Venture Capital Dispatch the company he co-founded is at a $50 million revenue run rate, an amount he expects to more than double by this time next year thanks to growth in offline businesses and new markets abroad. Read More »

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